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Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality

by: R. Gordon Wasson; Wendy Doniger

Topics: Fungi, Mushrooms, Soma, Amanita muscaria, Fly-Agaric, Vedas, Vedic, India, Indo-European, Indo-Europeans, Sinica, Beverages, Toadstools, Ethnobotany, Botany, Hallucinogens, Entheogens, Folklore, Plants, Flora, Psychotropic, Medicine, Religion, Spirituality, History, Historical

Collection: robert-bedrosian-library; additional_collections

Item Size: 269.2M

Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality, by R. Gordon Wasson (New York, 1968), in 404 bookmarked and searchable pdf pages, with numerous color plates and illustrations. A Wikipedia entry discusses the remarkable work of Wasson, and his identification of the Amanita muscaria (or, fly-agaric) mushroom as a psychoactive component in the mysterious Soma beverage mentioned in the Hindu Vedas. Sanskritist Wendy Doniger is the book's coauthor. Scanned by Robert Bedrosian. Internet Archive has a selection of works about ethnobotany.